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description: In White-Russia there is a legend about two rivers, the beginning of which has evidently been taken from the story of Jacob and Esau:-- Who acts: legend. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 94

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In White-Russia there is a legend about two rivers, the beginning of which has evidently been taken from the story of Jacob and Esau:--

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**Who acts:** legend · **What happens:** be, take · **To what, where:** White, story

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:38:94
# text = In White-Russia there is a legend about two rivers, the beginning of which has evidently been taken from the story of Jacob and Esau:--
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Esau	Esau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	discourse	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a legend about two rivers and the beginning |  |  | White and Russia; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in white=Location |
| 2 | **take** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the story of Jacob and Esau | of the beginning | evidently *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: of which=Initial\_Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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